[[Odilon Redon]] >A European cultural phenomenon of the late 19th century which originated in France and was first defined as a literary movement by Jean Moréas in the Symbolist manifesto of 1886, and then in relation to visual art by Albert Aurier (1892) as the "*painting of ideas*". In painting, Symbolism was viewed as having developed from later Impressionism and from Neo-Impressionism which, in the 1880s, had increasingly concentrated on the suggestive rather than the descriptive. Symbolism, one of my favourite art movements. [[Georges Bataille]] was involved in this. `Concepts:` [[Art]] `Knowledge Base:`